Show notes
We're back from a brief hiatus with - unbelievably - a film which actually deeply relates to testing! We're joined by Mark Tomlinson, who brings his own experiences of dealing with the National Transportation Safety Board, to discuss a film about a remarkable moment of true-life heroism, and the decisions that we make in the heat of the moment. The events of the movie give us a chance to get into in-depth discussions about the challenges of testing within regulated industries, developing risk mitigation strategies in life-critical environments, debugging/monitoring, and whether quality is a team effort. There are remarkably few distractions, although we get into some meta-discussion about whether it was correct to portray the NTSB as pantomime villains, a general critique of Clint Eastwood's agenda, a surprising number of references to metallurgy, and we give Mark an introduction to 1980s UK gameshows. YouTube trailers for films mentioned: Equity Miss Sloane Flight Unforgiven Bridges of Madison County Every Which Way But Loose Million Dollar Baby The 15:17 To Paris Gran Torino Ex Machina Deepwater Horizon Runaway Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle Miscellaneous links: Amazon.co.uk: Captain Chesley B Sullenberger III - Highest Duty TestBash Philadelphia 2017 TestBash San Francisco 2018 Del Dewar - Dressing Up the Spinning Cat Wikipedia: Yanny or Laurel Wikipedia: US Airways Flight 1549 National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Wikipedia: 2015 Shoreham Airshow crash AP News: Real-life investigators object to portrayal in 'Sully' movie Federal Aviation Administration Wikipedia: Hagiography YouTube: Clint Eastwood RNC speech interviewing an empty chair Earwolf: James Bonding podcast /r/MovieDetails: Poster for Gran Torino visible in Sully YouTube: Eddie Izzard - Glorious (Birdstrike) YouTube: Agile Testing Days 2015: Richard Bradshaw - Automation in Testing YouTube: Brendan Gregg - Shouting in the Datacenter YouTube: Austin Powers (1, not 2!) - Bathroom Break YouTube: Sully EPIC SPEECH Wikipedia: The Krypton Factor YouTube: The Krypton Factor - Flight simulator round YouTube: The Krypton Factor - Rearranging perspex shapes YouTube: The Krypton Factor - Tony Slattery and Roger Lloyd Pack in "Dead Ringer" sketch RailPlan 2020 Twitters: @MarkOnTask @TheTestDoctor @neilstudd Emails:[email protected] Intro music: Christian Jacob - Sully Suite Outro music: Christian Jacob - Flying Home (Sully's Theme)
